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A Russian distributor orders booksellers to pull works by well-known authors, in an apparent act of censorship.

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Stanley Fischer, a former top policymaker at the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Israel whose thinking was highly influential among generations of economists, has died at the age of 81.